Television broadcast receiving/recording device

1. A television broadcast receiving/recording device that receives a digital broadcast signal or an analogue broadcast signal, and outputs and records a video/audio signal of a selected channel, comprising: a recording section to record predetermined type digital data including video data and audio data generated based on a received broadcast signal; a program information obtaining section to obtain program information through a predetermined path; a program information analyzing section to analyze the program information obtained by the program information obtaining section; a program recording control section which, when a recording command is input while a program is being watched, makes the program information analyzing section analyze the program information including information on the program being watched, thereby setting a recording reservation for a program; an input section to input the recording command to the program recording control section by a single input operation to set the recording reservation; and a timekeeper section to keep current time, wherein the program recording control section determines date and time on which the recording command is input by the input section in accordance with information from the timekeeper section, and extracts a program broadcast starting time and a program broadcast ending time of the program being watched from the program information analyzing section based on the date and time, when the program recording control section determines that the time at which the recording command is input by the input section is within a predetermined period of time from the program broadcast starting time of the program being watched, a program for which the recording reservation is set is selectable between (i) a next broadcast and/or a subsequent broadcast of the program being watched and (ii) a next broadcast and/or a subsequent broadcast of a program before the program being watched, which are displayed on a display in a first content screen, wherein the program being watched and the program before the program being watched are broadcasted on a same channel, when the program recording control section determines that the time at which the recording command is input by the input section is within the predetermined period of time from the program broadcast ending time of the program being watched, the program for which the recording reservation is set is selectable between (i) the next broadcast and/or the subsequent broadcast of the program being watched and (ii) a next broadcast and/or a subsequent broadcast of a program after the program being watched, which are displayed on a display in a second content screen, wherein the program being watched and the program after the program being watched are broadcasted on a same channel, the single input operation selects the recording reservation from the first content screen or the second content screen, and the program recording control section sets the recording reservation for the chosen program.

2. The television broadcast receiving/recording device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the program recording control section is capable of changing a recording cycle in setting the recording reservation.

3. The television broadcast receiving/recording device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the recording cycle is changed by changing a period of time for which the input operation is performed.

4. The television broadcast receiving/recording device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the program recording control section compares the time at which the recording command is input with the program broadcast starting time of the program being watched so as to determine whether the time at which the recording command is input is within the predetermined period of time from the program broadcast starting time of the program being watched, and the program recording control section compares the time at which the recording command is input with the program broadcast ending time of the program being watched so as to determine whether the time at which the recording command is input is within the predetermined period of time from the program broadcast ending time of the program being watched.

5. A broadcast receiving/recording device comprising: a reception section which receives a broadcast signal; a recording section which records the received broadcast signal; a program information obtaining section which obtains program information; an input section which inputs a recording command; a determination section which determines at least one of (i) whether an input time, which is a time when the recording command is input by the input section while a program of the received broadcast signal is being watched, is within a predetermined period of time from a program broadcast starting time of the program being watched and (ii) whether the input time is within the predetermined period of time from a program broadcast ending time of the program being watched; and a program recording control section, based on the determination result by the determination section, executes at least one of (a) a function to choose a program for which a recording reservation is set between (i) a next broadcast and/or a subsequent broadcast of the program being watched and (ii) a next broadcast and/or a subsequent broadcast of a program before the program being watched, which are displayed on a display in a first content screen, wherein the program being watched and the program before the program being watched are broadcasted on a same channel, and (b) a function to choose the program for which the recording reservation is set between (i) the next broadcast and/or the subsequent broadcast of the program being watched and (ii) a next broadcast and/or a subsequent broadcast of a program after the program being watched, which are displayed on a display in a second content screen, wherein the program being watched and the program after the program being watched are broadcasted on a same channel wherein the recording command is a single input operation that selects the recording reservation from the first content screen or the second content screen.

6. The television broadcast receiving/recording device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the next broadcast occurs on a next day.

7. The broadcast receiving/recording device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the next broadcast occurs on a next day.

8. The television broadcast receiving/recording device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the next broadcast occurs on a next week.

9. The broadcast receiving/recording device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the next broadcast occurs on a next week.